Rebecca Brown and Vandana Ranjan

Rebecca Brown is Senior Director of Global Advocacy at the Center for Reproductive Rights. She leads the advocacy team in building human rights standards and seeking increased recognition and implementation of reproductive rights at the global level. Rebecca and her team have successfully positioned reproductive rights as fundamental human rights at the United Nations Security Council, at UN human rights bodies, and within key global coalitions. Rebecca serves on the steering committee for the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crisis. Vandana Ranjan joined the Center for Reproductive Rights in 2016 and manages federal initiatives to advance reproductive rights as human rights in U.S. foreign policy and address the ongoing U.S. maternal health crisis that disproportionately impacts Black and Indigenous birthing people. She engages Congress, executive branch agencies, policy experts, and federal advocates in order to advance legislation and policies that strengthen access to sexual and reproductive health care and improve health outcomes.

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The Global Gag Rule Violates Human Rights, We Need a Permanent Solution

The Global Gag Rule Violates Human Rights, We Need a Permanent Solution

The Global Gag Rule (GGR or Mexico City Policy) is a regressive, harmful policy that violates the human rights of women, girls, and people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics ...